Ericsson said its displacement from AT&T Wireless Services as the majority vendor hurt the company and conceded part of the reason it lost AT&T Wireless contracts was because of problems supplying equipment throughout the year."It hurts," said Gary Pinkham, vice president of investor relations...
FREMONT, California, United States-ePhone Telecom announced it secured an initial agreement with Saigon Postel Corp. (SPC) to develop a fixed wireless local loop network in Vietnam.SPC has the authority to provide telecommunications services in Vietnam and is contributing to the government's plan of adding...
CDMA handsets were the No. 1 selling handset in the United States during the first quarter of this year, with sales of 3.2 million units, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group Inc. TDMA handset sales were at 2.8 million units in...
The biggest challenge for wireless operators during the next four years most likely will be obtaining additional spectrum, according to Keith Radousky, director of engineering, BellSouth Cellular Corp. "(Wireless) data is going to take off similar to how it took off in the wireline...
What we see today as third-generation technology has nothing to do with what 3G will be, predicts Carlos Hirsch of Iusacell, a CDMA cellular operator and PCS licensee in Mexico."3G is now presented as the big bandwidths' hero-2 Megabits per second Internet browsing. And...
After months of denying any plans to sell its wireless handset division, Qualcomm is publicly relenting to the pressures of severe competition from Asia and the likes of Nokia and Motorola."With increased competition, parts shortages and industry consolidation reducing margins in consumer products, Qualcomm...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services on a large scale.TDMA operators-which in the late 1980s banked on Cellular Digital...
When Qualcomm's Dr. Irwin Jacobs looks forward to the next World Telecom show, in 2003, he predicts the continuing convergence of the computer and mobile phone. Jacobs foresees a cellular phone that is used throughout the day, with data downloaded once a user returns...
NMT 450 operators are to decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include CDMA technology, which could give cdmaOne technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group (DIG)-an assembly of operators tasked with evaluating...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The phrase on everyone's lips within the cellular industry at Telecom '99 will be value-added services, a world apart from the talk at the 1995 exhibition. This simple dictate is being touted as the only way for operators to achieve the future...
Ake Persson confirmed that at the time of Telecom '95, the telecommunications business seemed a simpler industry than that of today. "We viewed it as either a fixed or mobile world-period," he declared.But unlike some of his colleagues in the industry, he is candid...
SANDTON, South Africa-A wave of liberalization and privatization is transforming the cellular market in Africa. Countries riding high on this tide include South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Mauritius, C"te d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda.Pyramid Research predicts that only Angola, Burundi, Libya and Gambia will have...
NEW ORLEANS-Qualcomm Inc. said its tri-mode Code Division Multiple Access satellite handsets for use with the Globalstar system are available. The tri-mode portable phone operates with the Globalstar system as well as on CDMA and analog wireless networks.
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-AudioVox Communications Corp. introduced a new line of "clamshell" style cellular handsets.The line will debut with the PCX-3500XL. Made exclusively for PrimeCo Communications L.P., the phone has a titanium-colored front cover and a black back. It supports the Code Division Multiple Access 1.9...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra Corp. Ltd. announced the commercial availability of its Code Division Multiple Access wireless network across the metropolitan Adelaide, Australia, area. Coverage also will extend to the Adelaide Hills, including Mount Barker and Strathalbyn, and throughout the Southern Vales. The company already launched...
NEW ORLEANS-The fiery politics that once characterized the third-generation standards-setting process is rapidly dying, members of a 3G panel said at the PCS '99 show last week in New Orleans, but concerns remain over worldwide acceptance of the new standards."In order for 3G to...
Moving on its promise to step up promotion of Time Division Multiple Access technology worldwide, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium said it recently met with Chinese government officials to promote TDMA technology."This was an introductory meeting for different organizations in China to reintroduce China...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration this week is expected to respond again to the European Commission's plan to deploy third-generation mobile phone service in all 15 member states, using technology favored by Finland's Nokia Corp. and Sweden's L.M. Ericsson.The White House fears American-made wireless technology (Code...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they successfully demonstrated the ability to synchronize and maintain time and frequency between Code Division Multiple Access base stations using handset message traffic and span line inputs independent of global positioning system inputs.Using software specifically developed...
Cupertino, Calif.-based chip manufacturer DSP Communications Inc. today plans to introduce two new products for current and future Code Division Multiple Access handsets.Immediately available is DSPC's new CDMA Manufacturers Development Kit for wireless handsets, which will enable handset manufacturers to reduce development cycles, said...
Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz operators will decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include Code Division Multiple Access technology, which could give Interim Standard 95 technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group-an...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-Telstra in Australia formally launched cdmaOne service in Sydney and Melbourne, with plans to launch in Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra next month, said the CDMA Development Group.The launch of the $379.5 million network comes ahead of the closure of the country's...
TranscryptTranscrypt International Inc. said its EFJohnson subsidiary launched a new line of mobile and portable radios designed to operate on Motorola Inc.'s Smartnet and SmartZone systems in the 800 MHz frequency band. The portable radio comes with three keys or a dual-tone multifrequency keypad....
